Credit & Copyright: Zhuokai Liu,  
Jiang Yuhang  
  
 
Explanation:
Beautiful spiral galaxy NGC 6744  
is nearly 175,000 light-years across, larger than  
our own Milky Way.  
  
It lies some 30 million light-years distant in the southern  
constellation Pavo and appears as only a faint, extended object in  
small telescopes.  
  
We see the disk of the nearby island universe tilted towards our  
line of sight in this remarkably detailed galaxy portrait,  
a telescopic view that spans an area about the  
angular size of a full moon.  
  
In it, the giant galaxy's elongated yellowish core is dominated by  
the light from old, cool stars.  
  
Beyond the core, grand spiral arms are filled with  
young blue star clusters and speckled with pinkish star forming regions.  
  
An extended arm sweeps past a smaller satellite galaxy (NGC 6744A)  
at the lower right.  
  
NGC 6744's galactic companion is reminiscent of the Milky Way's  
satellite galaxy the Large Magellanic Cloud.  
  
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